One of the best features of Flash MX is its ability to download mp3 files directly into flash player, before the release of flash MX developers had to import mp3 files into their projects and this made handling such files very hard. But now with the loadSound() function you can easily load mp3s and choose the method flash player downloads them.

Learn how to create the flashkit guestbook and integrated with a database using ColdFusion instead of Perl.

While the large majority of computers have the flash plugin it's still necessary to test for it and provide an HTML version of your site. This tutorial will show you how to build a flash plugin sniffer without using Javascript.

This tutorial will show the user how to test if the viewer of their site has a fast enough computer to view their complex animations.

Like any software CD you'd insert into your CD/DVD ROM, you can make your flash animations, presentations or any project on CD run automatically once the CD inserted.

This is a quick and simple tutorial on how to detect the Flash Version 5 plugin without JavaScript.

When this tutorial is finished, you'll hopefully have more of an idea about how to combine PHP and Flash into one seamless package and create search engine of sorts that will look through a text file and return the results of that search to the Flash movie. Now, if you don't know PHP, I've included the source for the small script that does the actual searching with the tutorial, so tht shouldn't be a problem. One thing that you will need before you start this tutorial is a working machine that has PHP installed and working with the web server. Without this, the .php file will be useless, as will much of this tutorial. So, without further ado, let's get started.

This will teach you to build an analog clock for yourself.

LoadVars class is the most powerfull class for communicating with server-side technologies and to load external data from text files. It was introduced in Flash Player 6 to provide a cleaner, much more object-oriented interface for the common task of exchanging data with a server and text files. LoadVars class is an alternative to the loadVariables action with more flexibility for transferring variables between a Flash movie and a server-side technologies like ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, CGI-Perl, etc

Ok, so basically, you want to make a password for a website of another part of a flash movie. I will divide this tutorial into three parts, Part 1 is going to be the text fields. Part 2 will be the button. Part 3 will be the actionscript for the button.